19th Birthdays Quotes & Sayings

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right. — Yolanda Adams

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels. — Neil Gaiman

A light of hope; it radiates from your heart - and the world will get a new face. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace. — KRS-One

In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care. — Simon Sinek

Personality is the gland of creativity. — Sholem Asch

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends. — Emily Blunt

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars. — Tori Amos

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature. — Guy Finley

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole
society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism. — Allen Ginsberg

In April 1933, Willie's mother, Myrle, gave birth to him in a manger somewhere along the old highway between Waco & Dallas. There were angels in attendance that night. Some of them, no doubt, flying too close to the ground: — Kinky Friedman

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent. — Mata Amritanandamayi

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. — Gore Vidal